I don't see the jags putting up 40 points in 3 games let alone the first one. IMO the chiefs will win that game and if the broncos lose to the ravens you can expect the media(like this Ashley hag) and the chiefs fans declaring themselves west champs.

Yeah, KC should win that game only furthering the hype. I wouldn't be surprised to see KC at 5-4 or so at the bye, only to free fall soon after. If they can't beat Jacksonville, they are probably looking at 3-4 wins tops.

Know Jack Harry in KC has all but guaranteed Denver loses the Baltimore game and KC wins against Jacksonville.

I just don't get how a team with so many Top 5 draft picks is consistently picked as a dark horse to win the division

Their argument about how we were worst to first in 2011 doesn't highlight the extenuating circumstances. We went from 4-12 to 8-8. That's not a monumental climb. And the rest of the division was able to be just as average as us for us to take the division on tie-breakers alone.

The Raiders will be down again because they have no QB. The Chargers are already riddled with injury. But we will probably at worst be a 10-6 team. The Chiefs are coming off a 2 win season. Our 4 wins against a difficult schedule in 2010 to 8 wins with an easier schedule in 2011 wasn't as difficult as the what the Chiefs will be trying to accomplish. I do think the'll be better, but I do agree that every year a bunch of people pick the Chiefs as some kind of sleeper pick to make the playoffs and every year they have failed.

Last years' team was more than just one coach and a QB away from being a playoff team. 6-8 wins is their ceiling.

We also had a team riddled with injuries the previous season. And a coach in Josh McDaniels that was probably about as bad of a head coach as Romeo Crennel.

I really like what Alex Smith is going to do in KC. He's just good enough to take advantage of a good defense/run game to lead KC to mediocrity but not much more beyond that. The exact kind of QB for the same kind of coach.

Captain check down is going to get his head knocked off with that Oline. Can't even handle niners 2nd string D.

How's he doing on those 3rd and 7s? Well I've seen nothing but floaters 10 yards away from the reciever when the ball is being thrown more than 15 yards in the air. 3rd down conversions still horrible for him. Classic Smith.

The Chiefs are the definition of an 8-8 team. I'll set the window at 7-9 wins. They're going to struggle in the redzone offensively. Bowe still hasn't learned to run a route. Smith looks like the pre-Harbaugh Smith.

They'll win games against weaker teams, but they're not going anywhere.

The Chiefs are the definition of an 8-8 team. I'll set the window at 7-9 wins. They're going to struggle in the redzone offensively. Bowe still hasn't learned to run a route. Smith looks like the pre-Harbaugh Smith.

They'll win games against weaker teams, but they're not going anywhere.

I've been saying this for months.

This was a top 3 defense against an offense without Jamaal Charles. Of course they were going to look better. 49ers defense is amazing, especially that front 7.

But it's okay they'll get to laugh at Manning and his annual choke job.

I know that preseason is preseason, but still. Alex Smith can't score points against the Niners 2nd team defense. I don't think he pulled the trigger on a single intermediate passing play, much less a deep ball.